On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > While wget is a great utility for mirroring, it's not quite 100% perfect > for mirroring for Cygwin Setup without a little "help." That's because of > the way Setup devises the name of the directory into which it places the > package files it retrieves. > > For example, this Cygwin mirror: > > http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/cygwin > > yields this directory name in Setup's local package mirror (on one's system): > > http%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fcygwin/ > > Be sure to manually replicate this naming convention if you mirror with a > tool other than Setup itself.
With the right options, this isn't an issue. I, for example, sync to my local mirror from an ftp mirror with a command that looks something like this: /usr/bin/wget --mirror --convert-links --backup-converted \ --no-host-directories \ --append-output=/webserver/ftp-log/mirrorcygwin/20021107.log \ --directory-prefix=/webserver/ftp/pub/cygwin \ --cut-dirs=3 \ ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin My local ftp mirror roots at /webserver/ftp, so I then instruct setup to pull from ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin. Works pretty well for me, no manual fudging required. > Randall Schulz > Mountain View, CA USA > > > At 08:01 2002-11-07, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > >If you are having problems with your slow > >connection breaking in the middle of a > >download, then you might try using the 'wget' > >utility to download packages, and then use 'setup.exe' > >with the 'Install from Local Directory' option > >for installation. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Rodrigo Medina [mailto:rmedina@;ivic.ve] > > > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:25 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: NO huge packages, please! > > > > > > > > > To those that prepare packages, > > > Cuold you have a little bit of mercy with us, people that have slow > > > connections, and do not make packages bigger than (say) 10 MBytes? > > > Please! > > > > > > Rodrigo Medina, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Peter A. Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
